PAPERSPAST

The Late Bruce Glasier

I have read, parage j.-lis reporting n the tkarh of Bruce Cluster, but- susu laiued uiysel' with the hope that, the r.'-por; *iva;. exaggerated. The "Labor ■-Leader" just, to hand coniirms the i i.'iicl, aiid the Socialist mueme;it. is eoiis.aiti.'uhiv Ihe la.orer. V.-, i writ; ihc-s-" lines many ni"in ories are called up from the past. One I', is. reminded by this of ihe passing of r.,be years. As a youth sal aI. the feel of Kei" I bardic. Tom .'.ie.nn. Bruce Olasier. and Philip Snovaren. Alt iMimse comrades had different gifts I. nlaeed a: the disposal of the world's working class movement. As ;t kt' chilis! propagandist wb.o was never 1 delictied from his purpose, Bni'-e Giasier eacelhal m ail. For forty i years, in season and tun oi' season., t'he travelled from villaae to Village throughout the v.-boie oi' ihe Failed Kiaguoai. t vemeuih. a him boWling tV.-ih in a raw cob! wind before ;t re•; seniful crowd. I remember him addressing ilw few y'aiwaris who com.: ■■'along io the brat'eb. meeliny- in un~ comforiabie t.luii rooms. And through t «-11 these years be neyer tired. When hear ihe gibe -paid .agitator." I feel .a sickening sense of shame, knowing '.ie nature of lite work done aud ihe •ya< rimes invoked. Bruce al.vi enriched Sociaiisl !ilej"a--,: lure by hia, oi'iribiitions. The heal gii'l of, all. I think, is fee las! one; j wri!len on bis dying bed.'"The Alean, ing of Socialism." in cve''y page f can see the man 'him.'-elf. w'ao lived what lie I aught. others. I am just offering a tribute to a Highland Pro!, who may be counted! -anions tbe world's best men. He j had a cultural mind: lie was a great] propagandist animated by n pro-i I allelic vision, and litis lei';, behind an j ■cxaifi-pla thai. immeasurably j .smaller in comparison, may do some-j thing for tin 1 ("inincipaiion of soeiely j and. like bin: --"Leave behind us foot-1 prints on the sands of time."- AiDSKSJ AYRTOX.

Click here to view this newspaper article

This text was automatically generated by a computer. It has not been manually reviewed or corrected and may include errors. You can view the article in its original format or read the entire page.

About the computer-generated text

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a process for automatically extracting text from scanned pages. OCR enables searching of large quantities of full-text data, but it is not 100% accurate. The level of accuracy depends on the print quality of the original newspaper and its condition at the time of microfilming. Newspapers with poor quality paper, small print, mixed fonts, multiple column layouts or damaged pages may have poor OCR accuracy.

The page where this item appears has an estimated OCR accuracy of 98.72%.